AirTran Airways

Air transportation is essential for business and leisure traveling. People travel by air for many reasons such as various destinations to choose from, shorter traveling times, and safety. No matter the reason, air traveling carries direct and indirect expense and cost to the industry and customers. Some direct cost to the air industry is labor and fuel. Both variables can cause ticket prices to increase or decrease depending on how each airline company decides to allocate their profits.…

Chenfeld, D. (2011). Above All Else a World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. World champion skydiver Dan Chenfeld tells his story of overcoming tragedy by using the methods he created to become successful in skydiving and life. The book is informative and the author has proved the methods himself. I believe the information is accurate, but may be bias in favor of selling more copies of his book.…

Mactan Cebu Airport, an International and multi-awarded airport, is situated in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island and has the IATA airport code of “CEB”. The airport was built by the United States Air Force in 1956 as The Mactan Air Base, an emergency airport for the Strategic Air Command bombers. After which, it remained as an outpost until the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In 2014, the Philippine government awarded Mactan Cebu International Airport to the consortium of GMR Infrastructure Limited…

Wow time sure does fly by when you having fun, well in this case flying to fun! I am talking about none other than Delta Airlines, which in many peoples’ opinion is the best airline company in the U.S probably the world. Delta Airlines is a great airline company, yet there aren’t perfect. In this essay I am going to discuss Delta Airlines strengths, weaknesses, external threats, most of all opportunities to stand out from all other airiness both domestic and internationally. One of Delta…

Chesley Sullenberger “Chesley Sullenberger. I chose this one because at first glance I thought it said "Cheesy Cheeseburger".”-Chase Pyne 2/15/2017 “I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.”-Chesley Sullenberger (Quote Source). Chelsey Sullenberger was born in Denison, Texas on January 23, 1951. His main college education came from the US Air Force Academy when he enrolled in 1969, which he graduated as an officer in…

(Tracy). Even though it is a very powerful and influential company they still have many competitors that that compete with on a daily basis. The biggest being America Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Continental Holding, Virgin America, and Jet Blue Airways. American Airlines is one of the country’s oldest airline company and subjectively Southwest biggest competitor. American Airlines are largest airline in the entire world according to it’s revenue, fleet size, and number of passengers, and…

Appendix A 14 Detailed Graph Creation 14 Appendix B 15 Additional Information on Southwest Airlines and AirTran Airways 15 Southwest Airlines' Recognitions 15 Appendix C 17 About Red Rock Biofuels 17 Appendix D 18 The stock price data from my father 18 References 19 Tables and Figures Figure 1. 9 Year Closing Price $ 5 Figure 2. 1 Year Closing Price $ 6 Figure 3. Southwest and AirTran destinations 15 Abstract Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is in their 44th year of…

By purchasing Jet Blue, Southwest was able to venture into new routes and this has made it more and more profitable. Acquisition has also allowed Southwest maintain its low ticket prices while maintaining profitability. JetBlue Airways has, in the recent past, been among the new entrants in the market and it has been growing in a very fast manner. By acquiring it, Southwest acquired one of the companies with the highest potential. Also, JetBlue has been a competitor of Southwest…

It was only but 44 years ago in 1971 in Dallas, TX where one of the world’s most famous airlines would emerge! Started as a very small regional carrier, flying only from Houston, TX to Dallas, TX. Founded by Rollin King, a business man who graduated from Harvard University with a Master in Business Administration and Herb Kelleher who graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelors in English. Southwest Airlines to this day have kept a great reputation among many customers and have…

Sheet, 2015) As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler. (ATL Fact Sheet, 2015) The first flight into Candler Field was September 15, 1926, a Florida Airways mail plane flying from Jacksonville, Florida. In May 1928, Pitcairn Aviation began service to Atlanta, followed in June 1930 by Delta Air Service. (ATL Fact Sheet, 2015) Later…